John MacRae
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John MacRae is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in fields such as the military, politics, and the arts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John MacRae canonical | 2 |
| John Macrae | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10810617 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John MacRae Context triple: [MacRae, hasNotableBearer, John MacRae]
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A.
Henry MacRae
Henry MacRae was an early 20th-century American film producer and director known for his work on serials and genre films at Universal Pictures.
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B.
Glen MacPherson
Glen MacPherson is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on action and genre films in both Hollywood and international productions.
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C.
Allan MacDougall
Allan MacDougall is a notable individual recognized for bearing the MacDougall surname.
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D.
Stewart MacLennan
Stewart MacLennan is a Scottish music promoter best known for co-founding and helping develop the Tiree Music Festival into a prominent island music event.
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E.
Charles Maclaren
Charles Maclaren was a 19th-century Scottish journalist and editor best known as a co-founder and long-time editor of the influential newspaper The Scotsman.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John MacRae Target entity description: John MacRae is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in fields such as the military, politics, and the arts.
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A.
Henry MacRae
Henry MacRae was an early 20th-century American film producer and director known for his work on serials and genre films at Universal Pictures.
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B.
Glen MacPherson
Glen MacPherson is a Canadian cinematographer known for his work on action and genre films in both Hollywood and international productions.
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C.
Allan MacDougall
Allan MacDougall is a notable individual recognized for bearing the MacDougall surname.
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D.
Stewart MacLennan
Stewart MacLennan is a Scottish music promoter best known for co-founding and helping develop the Tiree Music Festival into a prominent island music event.
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E.
Charles Maclaren
Charles Maclaren was a 19th-century Scottish journalist and editor best known as a co-founder and long-time editor of the influential newspaper The Scotsman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | set of humans with the same name ⓘ |
| familyName | MacRae ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasCategory | human name disambiguation ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
forename John
ⓘ
surname MacRae ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | masculine ⓘ |
| hasName | John MacRae ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearers |
artists named John MacRae
ⓘ
military figures named John MacRae ⓘ politicians named John MacRae ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearersInField |
arts
ⓘ
military ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| isAmbiguousWith |
John Macrae
ⓘ
linked to:
John MacRae
John McRae ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| usedAs | personal name ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: John MacRae Description of subject: John MacRae is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in fields such as the military, politics, and the arts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.